Photographer Villard Paddio chronicled Black New Orleans

Rural emergency care is struggling to keep up with ICE detention demand

Records of hundreds of 911 calls from ICE detention centers in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Indiana and Texas illustrate the weight of immigration detention on emergency services.

Elenora Peete fought for the rights of New Orleans' domestic workers

Domestic workers were told they were “like family” but were never treated as such. “The reality is that their work was not treated as real work,” said Premilla Nadasen, author of “Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement.” “They were very often framed by their employers as ‘one […]

New Orleans is one step closer to using federal funding to replace customers’ lead pipes

Louisiana voters will decide in November whether to ensure local water utilities can use federal funding to pay to replace residents’ lead pipes.

Gene therapy cures metro New Orleans man of sickle cell, clears path for dream of becoming pilot

Daniel Cressy became the first patient in the Gulf South to be functionally cured of sickle cell disease through gene editing on Monday. He said it felt like being reborn.

Court watchers blocked from Louisiana immigration hearings are fighting to gain access

A group of court watchers in Louisiana claim that they have been denied access from immigration court hearings more than 50 times over the course of seven months — a trend occurring across the country.